Stuxnet's Earliest Known Version Discovered and Analyzed 77
An anonymous reader writes "Symantec researchers have discovered an older version of the infamous Stuxnet worm that caused the disruption at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz: Stuxnet 0.5. According to a whitepaper released by the researchers at RSA Conference 2013, Stuxnet 0.5 has first been detected in the wild in 2007 when someone submitted it to the VirusTotal malware scanning service, but has been in development as early as November 2005. Unlike Stuxnet versions 1.x that disrupted the functioning of the uranium enrichment plant by making centrifuges spin too fast or too slow, this one was meant to do so by closing valves."
2005? (Score:2, Funny)
It took that long to get this damn this to do what it was supposed to do? What was it originally called, Windows Longhorn Stuxnet Edition?
Re:2005? (Score:2, Funny)
It was a government IT project. Of course it took years. Probably cost 100 times the original estimate too.
When did it first jump species? (Score:5, Funny)
When did it first jump species from laundry dryers to centrifuges?